A stunning sunny day today. Here we are at the most northern point of our travels and we get the most sunshine! Em spent the night in our bed last night - not much room. After breakie and lunchmaking we set off for Trondheim, about an hours drive away through thickly pine forested hills. Industrial on the outskirts, the city is very pretty and cosmopolitan in the main parts. The city centre is like a triangle surrounded by rivers. We walked up through a shopping ...

Up early with felix, who had a restless night. Due to no tent we were able to pack up quickly and get on the road by 9:30, even with the girls wanting a play in the very wet playground. Drive into Alesund as thought we better see it having driven all that way. Lonely planet was right. A remarkably pretty town - was burnt to the groundhog early 1900's so the rebuild meant that nearly all 'the buildings are uniformly art deco. Lovely along the waterfront. Drove al...

It was still raining this morning, taking down a wet tent is not on my list of favorite things to do. Still, we managed to be ready to leave by 9:30 - a record so far! Today we started the trip up to Trondheim, beginning with the bit Jason has been excited about - driving the Aurlandsvegan, the 42km road up and over the mountains that the Laerdal tunnel goes through. It's closed after October so we were lucky to do it. Starting at the Sognefjord watefront the roa...

A driving day today as we took the long and circuitous route to Flam. We decided to drive up the 'coast' from Bergen to Rutledal then took the first of three ferries across to drive east alongside Sognefjord all the way to the tip. What an absolutely incredible and spectacular trip. The road clung to the edge of the fjord most of the way. Large rocky mountains swerving down into the water or softening into small pockets of bright green pastureland. Wherever the l...

We decided to stay an extra night here so had a relaxing day today. Jason cooked a scrummy breakfast of scrambled eggs and the slab of herby smoked salmon we got at the fish Market yesterday. Delish. And nice to all be sat around a table together. There's a great playground at the campsite with wooden trucks, swings, slide and climbing frame. The girls love it. I showed em how to hang by her legs from the trapeze swing and pull herself up, and now she confidentl...